Alo Loco

I’m Alo Loco from Italy and I’m specialized in black and grey realistic and surrealistic tattoos. Full sleeves and big pieces are my favourite ones to work on. I’m always working on improving techniques paying special attention to details and other aspects such as volume, texture and composition in order to create that tattoo that people will be proud to wear on their skin forever.

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Caro Lacid

Caro Lacid is an Argentinian illustrator and tattoo apprentice based in London. She wants to express all the sadness and awkwardness in the world.

Through her blackwork, she wishes to give every customer a reminder of their most profound, silly, weird, odd human feelings and experiences. Caro will also tattoo the occasional bits and bobs from nature.

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London

Styles

blackwork, illustrative, personal artwork

category: Illustrative, London

Hettie Baker

Tattoo artist Hettie Baker has been interested in art from a young age, pursuing this passion while growing up and going on to complete a degree in fine art. After serving a tattoo apprenticeship which she finished in 2015, she has been tattooing professionally ever since.

Most of Hettie’s work is influenced by nature and the shapes and colours seen in this area, using expressive sketchy marks to create sharp and precise tattoos. During her art studies, she made a lot of etchings due to a fascination with the little details, while also enjoying the process of creating oil paintings and textures. She now uses these techniques in her tattooing, viewing the skin as another medium to work on.

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London

Styles

illustrative

category: Abstract, Illustrative, London

Mess

Mess has always looked for visual art in his life and sees all aspects of the world in this way. His artwork mixes cubism with integrated minimalist lines and combines them into unique illustrations. As an independent artist, Mess believes that he has a responsibility to bring his vision to the public with the complicated versions of it, such as life.

Mess has many ongoing projects which include his current “tale driver” project. This is about collecting personal written stories from his clients and turning them into visual art.

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London

Styles

abstract, illustrative

category: Illustrative, London

Nouvelle Rita

What I try to do in tattooing is to have a recognisable central object that when you look up closer you’ll find a lot of details you hadn’t noticed before. To me, it’s a very intuitive process. I like doing organic objects the most, especially animals and people. I feel incredibly lucky that tattoo found it’s way into my life.

Tattooing is much more than a job, it’s my passion and I hope that I can continue doing it until I’m old and grey.

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London

Styles

blackwork, pattern work, minimal

category: Black and Grey, London

Sana

Drawing was her favorite thing to do during childhood, quickly growing into passion. Roksana first started tattooing At the end of 2015 in her last year of high school of art. After graduating she moved to Canada and worked in shops in Mississauga, Ontario and Halifax, Nova Scotia where she got a lot of the experience as a tattoo artist and also for the first time participated in Maritime tattoo festival and won first place for small black and grey tattoo.

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London

Styles

black and grey

category: Black and Grey, London

TDan

Denis Torikashvili (TDan) was born in Rostov-on-Don, in the south of Russia, which is where he started tattooing in 1997.

He learnt about tattooing from American movies, and the first tattoo studio opened in his city in 1995. At the time, there was practically no information about tattoos. He had to work in difficult conditions, but despite that, the most important thing was there: the desire to tattoo and be tattooed.

TDan has worked with different tattoo styles including Japanese, ornamental, realistic and American traditional, but he was always looking for something new and different so that he could express himself properly.

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London

Styles

black and grey

category: Abstract, London, Water Colour

Yuki Zerkjad

Yuki Zerkjad is a Romanian tattoo artist and moved to London in 2016, convinced that it would allow her to grow artistically. Having been on a continuous journey of self-discovery ever since she started tattooing, she’s been aspiring to find the true paths of existence and humanity aesthetically.

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London

Styles

abstract, water colour

category: Black and Grey, Exeter

Alexandra Ispas

Alexandra has always had a passion for art, expressing her ideas through drawing and painting. She attended both Art School and University, achieving a Master’s Degree while developing her artistic sense. Approaching a multitude of styles, from oil painting on canvas to street art, Alexandra believes her art and ideas come straight from the soul.

Artistic creativity is an extension of the self in a symbolic form. Art talks about artists and their lives, so they must be able to recognise themselves in it. In most tattoos, Alexandra’s approach is a realistic style because she likes to emphasise as much as possible the emotions they can bring out.

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Exeter

Styles

black and grey

category: Black and Grey, Exeter, Neo Traditional, Script

Dave Valentine

I am a 26 year old artist focusing on dark realism and neo traditional, black and grey realism, and script. I have always had influences into art and wasn’t long before I realised tattooing was the industry I wanted to work in.

I am a sponsored artist and hold multiple awards, including realism, black and grey, blackwork and best of show. I enjoy working with the ideas that my clients have and feel blessed to do so, and would love to be able to do more of my bespoke work pieces when I’m at NR.

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Lauren Gow

Lauren Gow began her tattoo career in Devon before joining NR Studio Cheltenham in 2012 to develop as a tattoo artist. She has successfully honed her skills to become a sought after, traditional tattoo artist, diversifying into neo-traditional, geometric, dotwork and blackwork.

Lauren’s favourite part of her job is creating a tattoo that her customer can be proud to wear on their skin, being inspired by their ideas. In her spare time, Lauren enjoys painting traditional pieces and often sells prints of her artwork.

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Styles

colour realism, ornamental

category: Blackwork, Exeter, Neo Traditional, Script

Woz

From an early age, Woz has been interested in art, and at around 16 years old, he started to paint graffiti.

Years later, but still using this platform, he developed a strong fascination with tattoo art and made the obvious transition into the tattoo industry, serving an apprenticeship before becoming a tattoo artist in 2011.

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Ash Voyle

His tattooing style is bold and clean, using repeated pattern work and crisp shapes while setting himself apart with tattoos that are contemporary and fresh.

Focusing on creating pieces that complement the body’s natural shape, he uses intricate dots and solid blackwork – standing out on the skin as pieces in their own right, but also working well under or around existing tattoos.

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Cheltenham

Styles

black and grey, surrealism

category: Black and Grey, Cheltenham

Ben Fyfe

Ben specialises in black and grey realism with a preferred surreal twist.

He gets his inspiration from nature and other natural forms to create his designs. Ben likes to develop a customer’s idea in his style to create an eye-catching design specifically for that person, making it more personal and unique.

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Cheltenham

Styles

blackwork, sketchwork, water colour

category: Black and Grey, Cheltenham, Surrealism

Razvan Grecu

Razvan has a passion for black and grey tattoos and believes contrast is the key to a great black and grey piece. Surrealistic pieces, dark themes, realism, landscapes, scenes and portraits are some of his favourite things to tattoo, enjoying working on custom compositions as well as good photography such as vintage-style photos.

When customising a piece, he draws inspiration from everything he experiences in life, from the mundane and ordinary to fantasy stories and the paradoxical.

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Cheltenham

Styles

Black and Grey, Surrealism

category: Cheltenham, Neo Traditional, Traditional

Tanya Buxton

Tanya started tattooing in 2010 and has travelled all over the UK and overseas, spending most of her time in Australia and New Zealand before setting her roots in Cheltenham. In 2015, she also became a qualified Cosmetic Tattoo Artist, specialising in brows, eyeliner and lips.

Tanya’s favourite style to tattoo is Neo-Traditional, but she especially loves working in colour and is particularly fond of all things tropical!

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Cheltenham

Styles

neo traditional, traditional

category: Cheltenham, Geometric, Neo Traditional

Tyler Payne

Tyler’s tattoos are bold and intricate, mixing old school images with a contemporary style. His use of colour in his neo-traditional work connotes that of a Japanese style which is bright and beautiful.

Using solid linework and super-detailed dotwork, Tyler also creates stunning dotwork and geometric tattoos – sometimes fusing the two styles together to bring his own unique style to neo-trad.

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Simon Si

After studying different aspects of art, Simon decided to start a new path in his life as a tattoo artist. He developed a blackwork style which combines geometric patterns and illustrative art to create a unique piece for each customer.

He loves working with lines and dots and is always up for creating something different and visual. When he’s not tattooing, he’s performing as a magician all over the world. And that’s what he’s always adding to his tattoos – a little touch of magic.

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Ola

Ola is our newest member of the team and has been inspiring the more experienced artists with her drive and commitment to becoming a great tattoo artist. She gained her basic knowledge in November 2017 in Southmead Studio under the mentor of Max Pniewski and has a passion for dotwork with a view to develop her style to become a mix of both dotwork and realism/dotwork.

Alongside tattooing, Ola is also studying Graphic Communication at Bath Spa University, where she is learning different methods of designing that can be applied to her tattoo designs.

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Bristol

Styles

illustrative, minimal, geometric, dot work

category: Bristol, Personal Artwork

Max

As a Bristol tattoo artist, Max has been rapidly developing his skills in both tattooing and many other media of painting and digital art. While comfortable in all styles of tattooing, he is particularly focused on the “realistic” path, focusing mostly on colour work. Max is known as one of the most travelling artists in the UK, heading conventions and guest spots every month for the last couple of years. His hard work and dedication are giving him strong roots on the “tattoo map”.

After all these years, Max still concentrates on improving his work and artwork using different techniques, including learning all computer graphic programs etc. He doesn’t give away any opportunity to improve as an artist and as a person.

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Bristol

Styles

personal artwork

category: Blackwork, Bristol, Illustrative

Joel Uve

Joel lives to mix many different elements into his work using different textures, techniques and tools to get the unique effect that is produced in his tattoos. His style began from having a Graffiti background and has developed to incorporate a lot of his illustrative style and muralism. Studying art in Barcelona, Joel is the ultimate creative, continually evolving through any medium he feels he can be creative.

Joel’s heavy blackwork tattoos reflect an understanding of how heavy black, solid and unerasable ink is needed to reflect an image of violence on the viewer’s eyes.

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Bristol

Styles

blackwork, illustrative

category: Bristol, Personal Artwork

My Cute Creatures

Flavia Verda created the creatures as a totally different style than her black work with the same love and passion. Starting as street art in Bucharest 10 years ago, the creatures evolved into an original tattoo style, transcending from the walls into a new canvas.

They can be found all over the world and you can have one only for yourself. Every creature is unique so if you like the extra cute , sometimes creepy combination don’t hesitate to contact us for a consultation.

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Flavia Verda

Flavia is a street artist from Romania who began her tattoo career at NR Studio in Bucharest as an apprentice. Her tattoos take influence from nature, animals and plants, but she’s also inspired by human interactions, friends and cute situations.

Now based in Bristol, Flavia tattoos in a traditional style and is happy to take on most projects. She has developed her own style shaped by her street art and has a portfolio full of creatures she’d like to tattoo, all patiently waiting for the right person to claim them.

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Darkmaa Tattooer

Marta has been tattooing professionally for over 10 years, and her passion for art has continued to grow and evolve for the whole of her journey. Studying art in Barcelona before her career began, there was only one way she was set to go with work.

Travelling and tattooing all over the world, she has worked with some of the best there is and has kept evolving. We are honoured to have her here with us in Bristol.Marta loves every line and dot she creates and wants to make each tattoo personal to the client that it will live on. Check out her work and get in touch for a consultation to develop your idea together.

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Bristol

Styles

Pattern Work, Geometric, Dot Work, Ornamental

category: Black and Grey, Bristol, Illustrative

Dan Stewart

Ex professional boxer Dan hung up his gloves when he got the opportunity to become a tattoo artist at Bristol’s Avon tattoo. Dan’s career got off to a flying start winning an award at his first tattoo convention after only tattooing for 12 months.

Dan enjoys tattooing all styles and creating custom designs for his clients, he is happy to guest across all of the NR Studios upon request and push himself to go far and develop his skills even further.